Demetrio Cosola (9 September 1851 – 27 February 1895) was an Italian painter of Piedmontese verismo painting.

Biography

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Born in

San Sebastiano da Po San Sebastiano da Po is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important bus ...

, he lived his entire life between

Chivasso Chivasso (; pms, Civass) is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin, in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin. Chivasso has a population of about 27,000. It is situated on the left bank of the Po river, near the inf ...

, where he moved with his family at the age of seven, and Turin. At the age of 18 he began attending the

Accademia Albertina The Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti ("Albertina Academy of Fine Arts") is an institution of higher education in Turin, Italy History In the first half of the seventeenth century, there was a "University of Painters, Sculptors and Architects" ...

. He studied under

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, Giovanni Tamone, and became friends with another teacher,

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. In 1873, he began to exhibit, but initially without great success. In 1884, he returned to the Academy, as assistant teacher first to Gastaldi, then (after the latter's death in 1889) to

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. He died in February 1895 of pneumonia. Cosola was quite a prolific painter: despite his short life, there are about 200 landscapes, about 200 portraits and about a hundred paintings of other genres. His favorite subjects were nature and the everyday life of ordinary people, frequently including children. Among his major works, ''Al sole'' ( ''In the Sun'', 1884) was housed in the

Royal Palace of Turin The Royal Palace of Turin ( it, Palazzo Reale di Torino) is a historic palace of the House of Savoy in the city of Turin in Northern Italy. It was originally built in the 16th century and was later modernized by Christine Marie of France (1606–1 ...

, but was destroyed by a fire in 1997; ''Il dettato'' ('' The Dictation Lesson'', 1891) is housed in the

Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Italian - ''Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino'' or ''GAM Torino'') is an art gallery in Turin, Italy, founded in 1891-1895 and located in 31 via Magenta. With the MAO ...

; ''Dolori inattesi'' (''Unexpected Sorrows'', 1895) is in

, in a private collection; ''La vaccinazione nelle campagne'' (''The Vaccination in the Countryside'', 1894) is also housed in Chivasso, in the Town Hall.

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